Read a full match report of the Premier League game between Swansea City and
Liverpool at Liberty Stadium on Sunday May 13, 2012.

Kenny Dalglish has called for Liverpool owners John W Henry and Tom Werner to behave with “dignity and integrity” as he faced more questions over his future at Anfield.

After Liverpool’s 14th defeat of the season the manager defended the performance of his team amid claims that a replacement is already being discussed. Danny Graham’s 86th minute goal at the Liberty Stadium will not have helped his case.

It left Dalglish to reflect on an unacceptable eighth-place finish in the Premier League, one position below bitter rivals Everton and Liverpool’s lowest for 18 years.

It is understood that both Henry and Werner will be in the city this week to reflect on the club’s season before meeting with Dalglish for a full debrief. Any decision on the future of the coaching team will be made after that.

Dalglish feels his side’s Carling Cup success and the fact they reached the FA Cup final should be enough to earn him a stay of execution. “I would expect the owners to have more dignity and integrity than to believe a story in a newspaper,” said Dalglish after suggestions that Wigan’s former Swansea manager Roberto Martínez was being lined up for Anfield.

If anything, Dalglish’s counterpart yesterday, Swansea’s Brendan Rodgers, could be further up the list of possible candidates than the Spaniard should the owners decide on a change of direction.

Rodgers has done an impressive job in keeping Swansea in the top flight for another season at least and his team deserved something against Liverpool, too, despite surviving an exacting second half during which Dalglish’s side might have had half-a-dozen goals.

Unfortunately for the Scot, increasingly agitated by his side’s inability to score, a combination of wayward finishing and the performance of Michel Vorm left the game in the balance.

Vorm beat away Andy Carroll’s bicycle kick in the 63rd minute and saved twice more from the striker as Liverpool put Swansea’s back four under increasing pressure. It was that kind of day for the visitors, who eventually dropped their guard four minutes from time.

Angel Rangel crossed from the right and Graham beat Alexander Doni at his near post. Cue wild celebrations from the home fans but it was no laughing matter for Dalglish, who claimed his side deserved better even though they took 40 minutes to register their first attempt on goal.

“I think the second half performance deserved a point,” he said. “The passing and movement at times has been excellent and the goalkeeper’s save to stop Andy was fantastic.

“Maybe next year the luck will change for us. We won’t run away from the points tally or hide, or say the points tally is satisfactory. We will face up to reality. The performances have been excellent in a lot of cases, but not the points tally. We will try our best to correct that.”

For Swansea, it was a 14th clean sheet and 12th win of a remarkable season. “I thought we thoroughly deserved to win the game and yes, it was a wonderful way to finish a fairytale year,” Rodgers said.

“We had to be patient and move them about, but it was a joy to watch a group of guys who were told they wouldn’t be able to pass it and succeed at this level.”